“I feel the need — the need for speed.” The tagline from the 1980s movie Top Gun could be seen as the mantra for the high-performance computing system world these days. The next milestone in the endless race to build faster and faster machines has become embodied in standing up the first exascale supercomputer. Exascale might sound like an alternative universe in a science fiction movie, and judging by all the hype, one could be… read more